Dayle Haddon was first placed on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1973 and continues to be a major player in the modeling world. That same year she posed nude in Playboy and also held beauty contracts for Max Factor, Revlon, Estée Lauder,…
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June 8, 2012
Sheila Roscoe was called for a one-day swimwear modeling gig in 1972. She was a flight attendant living in Los Angeles, so that commute over to the job at Marina del Ray was a quick one. A few years prior, a passenger on one of her TWA flights…
June 1, 2012
Tannia Rubiano wasn’t really into sports when she posed for the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue in 1971. She was a University of Miami student and wasn’t all that athletic when posing on the beaches of Dominican Republic. But that…
May 18, 2012
On January 13, 1969, Jamee Becker appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in armbands, necklaces, ropes, and a lot of accessories. It was about as “hippie” as swimwear could get—after all, this was the year that Woodstock would introduce …
May 11, 2012
Turia Mau presented a whole other level of exoticism when she was featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue on January 15, 1968. Caribbean, Mexican, and bi-coastal travel were the locations chosen for the first few issues, and…
May 4, 2012
Instead of splashing in the water and playing in the waves, Sports Illustrated visited the Arizona desert for its cover in 1967. The cover model was Marilyn Tindall, and if there is any cover that could be released in modern day, it’s this one. The…
April 27, 2012
With a big bright smile and a name that couldn’t be any more fitting, Sunny Bippus was the third model to ever appear on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue cover. The shoot took place in the Exumas district of the Bahamas—an incredibly…
April 20, 2012
While some Sports Illustrated swimsuit models use the magazine cover to launch a lifelong career, issue No. 2′s cover girl, Sue Peterson, turned her experience into lifelong love. Jack Olsen was a well-known journalist along to write the travel…
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